William Gibson on writing in the age of Google
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Boing Boing: Amazon has just published a lengthy interview with William Gibson about his forthcoming novel Spook Country...Gibson holds forth on "writing in the age of Google," advancing the hypothesis that the Internet is more stimulus than distraction for the working writer.
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Interesting interview... I liked Pattern Recognition, and of course, Neuromancer is required reading for any high-school age boy. And fiction writing, like everything else, has been really changed, first by the use of word processing programs, and now the research possiblities of the Internet. But strangely, I still find it generally deadening when a character in a novel writes an email or looks something up on the Internet. I guess it can't be helped.
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